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Stepping Stones Pre-School
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Stepping Stones Pre-School
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- Clipston LE16 9RU
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Outstanding |
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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: The environment is well resourced and children make independent choices about what they want to do while at pre-school. Children enjoy learning, both indoors and outdoors.
Activities: Staff use planned and spontaneous activities to support children to extend their knowledge. For example, children count items in the shop and staff support them to name the things they choose to buy.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are supported to develop mathematical knowledge. They explore the directional arrows on a robot before they programme it to move on the 'Snakes and Ladders' mat. They count confidently and recognise written numbers up to 20.
Communication: Parents particularly value the face-to-face and online feedback they receive about their children's progress.
Programs and Resources: Staff develop highly effective relationships with parents and other professionals who may be involved in children's care. This means they can plan and implement specific strategies to support children to make the best possible progress.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children separate from their parents at the door and are welcomed in by cheery, friendly staff.
Safeguarding Training: Staff refresh their safeguarding knowledge on a regular basis by taking part in training sessions.
Play and Learning Integration: Children enjoy learning, both indoors and outdoors.
Transition to Primary School: All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are making good progress.
Child Safety Management: The pre-school is safe and secure.
Teaching Personal Safety: Staff have a clear awareness of the signs and symptoms of different types of abuse that children can be subjected to, including grooming online and female genital mutilation.
Happiness and Settling: Children thoroughly enjoy their time at Stepping Stones Pre-School.
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Stepping Stones Pre-School is a Nursery, Nursery located in Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
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Preschool Stepping Stones is situated in the picturesque countryside of Clipston, Northamptonshire.
We strive to offer the finest standard of early years learning and childcare from our location in the Grade 2 listed schoolhouse at the centre of the village.
We are happy that the fundraising efforts of our committee allow us to have a generous staff-to-child ratio (of at least 1:5), allowing the team to provide each child's needs and interests their undivided attention.
We pioneered the weekly Forest School programme in our community and now offer it to all preschoolers enrolled in the programme.
Children may learn via creative outdoor play in a natural setting thanks to the Forest School.
In 2015, we started using the specialised online diary for early years learning called "Tapestry," which documents all the learning and fun of young children's education.
We were thrilled to maintain our Outstanding status throughout the Ofsted inspection in 2016!
It has consistently been a top-notch preschool, with a "Outstanding" grade in both of our most recent inspections, in 2008 and 2016.
In Clipston, there is still a meadow known as "Stepping Stones" where individuals could bridge Sidom's Ford, a branch of the River Ise.
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We strive to offer the finest standard of early years learning and childcare from our location in the Grade 2 listed schoolhouse at the centre of the village.
We are happy that the fundraising efforts of our committee allow us to have a generous staff-to-child ratio (of at least 1:5), allowing the team to provide each child's needs and interests their undivided attention.
We pioneered the weekly Forest School programme in our community and now offer it to all preschoolers enrolled in the programme.
Children may learn via creative outdoor play in a natural setting thanks to the Forest School.
In 2015, we started using the specialised online diary for early years learning called "Tapestry," which documents all the learning and fun of young children's education.
We were thrilled to maintain our Outstanding status throughout the Ofsted inspection in 2016!
It has consistently been a top-notch preschool, with a "Outstanding" grade in both of our most recent inspections, in 2008 and 2016.
In Clipston, there is still a meadow known as "Stepping Stones" where individuals could bridge Sidom's Ford, a branch of the River Ise.
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Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 28th Oct 2024 - 1st Nov 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 7th Apr 2025 - 21st Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 23rd Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 2nd Sep 2024 - 27th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 2nd Nov 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 6th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 22nd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 22nd Jul 2025 |
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